Unfortunately I got put into SPED after my diagnosis in 3rd grade. Hated every second of it and had to fight tooth and nail to get out. Took me until 5th grade to get out.

One class I particularly despised was SPED language arts. When I was in 4th grade I had the reading comprehension of an 11th grader. However I had trouble with the physical act of writing. So what did the admins do? They put me in a class with kids who were almost literally illiterate. I hated going to that class. Often times our teacher would have us read a sentence or paragraph at a reading level I found very easy. I'd read the story or essay in five minutes by myself. It took the class the entire period to finish the damn thing...

Fortunately in 5th grade when I was released from that class I got put into a bunch of gifted classes, it was a nice change from what I had been used to the past several years.

In middle school I took a SPED math class (I've always sucked at math) and in high school I had a study hall class under the SPED umbrella. I used the time to get my AP class work done (I often went home from school with little or no school work).

Really? I've known quite a few Taiwanese over the years and grown up around a lot of Taiwanese Americans. A great deal of them have a Japanese grandparent or great grandparent. Were the mixed bloods allowed to stay? Or are the people I know rare exceptions?

Probably just people there to study or expat professionals doing work. When I studied Mandarin for a year in Beijing I met tons and tons of Japanese students and workers.

Also in my experience the Chinese are less friendly towards the government, not the people. This was in tier one Beijing though (but that's probably where most of these people are working/studying anyways).

We'll just call him D. D was a pretty cool guy, everyone in the class liked him. D did martial arts, D is making headway into the China film industry. People like D.

We were always the first two people to class and occasionally we would talk about various subjects. Gradually he learned that I thought teaching these days was geared more towards women and put boys at a disadvantage. This was the tipping point. Over the next several months he started by going over how feminists have highjacked his beloved Canada which led to his hatred towards muslims, which led to him talking about his hatred of black/thug (chabuduo, am I right?) culture, which led to him telling me how he despised race mixing, thought asian women were submissive and Asians stupid.

Which was all weird since most of the women he dated over there were Chinese, he took Chinese martial arts, lauded China for her accomplishments and had quite a few friends from various backgrounds. Oh and quite a few of the students in our class were younger African and central Asian muslims (plus our Hui teacher) who absolutely adored him, what would they think if they knew what really thought of them?

Overall an interesting fellow, why did he open up to me so much? Was it because I'm American (he idolized right wing America)? Was it because I was every so slightly centrist on some issues? Was it because I'm an Aryan wet dream? Who knows, all I know is he's still in Beijing right now working illegally as a part time actor/teacher/student (oh, he was also disgusted by people who worked illegally in his country, well what the hell about you D?).